SweetSue92
Diamond Member
I keep asking you Tommy--how can you say "Only in Alabama"? You ever been there? Birmingham? Montgomery? Mobile? Anywhere in the state?
Or are you just being a snotty judge from afar, as usual?
I live in the U.S. I was born a U.S. citizen. I've been to Alabama. Tommy is right. Alabama sucks big time. I remember when Birmingham was known as "Bombingham." Those dead little girls in the church choir. Remember?
Well, I've been to the East Coast and never met a bunch of colder, meaner people Hysteria, and that's the truth. Philly is pretty bad, DC is terrible but NYC is really the worst. I feel awful for foreigners who come to see what America is like and stop at the East Coast--the rudest, coldest people I've ever seen.
Except maybe Parisians, but that's another story
Where are you from? Where do you live? Who treated you badly? In NYC, in DC? I've lived all of my life in in NYC and DC. What happened to you when you were here in these places? Who treated you wrongly? If you had an incident on the street, did people not rush to your aid?
People from all over the U.S. rush to the aid of others all the time. This is our duty as human beings.
Sweet Sue, Who treated you "cold" and "mean" in DC, NYC, London?
I live in the Midwest, and it was more rare to see a polite and friendly person than it was a cold and rude one. Especially in NYC. The rudest people I have encountered anywhere I have traveled. Philly and DC were a close second.
This is not a secret, Hysteria. This is quite well known, how rude East Coasters are.
How so? I've experienced nothing but graciousness. An African-American man whom I remember shoveling behind my vehicle after a snow storm. Two African-American men who rushed to pick me up when I fell outside of a store on the ice. We have a downstairs neighbor who is African-American and always has plants outside. We had a conversation a few days ago about herbs, and he showed me where I could get mint and basil without going to the store. Just stop in front of the condo and pick them.
Just this past week, an African-American bus driver stopped to wait for me and my groceries (I am currently car-less), an Hispanic woman helped me on board with my heavy packages, and while I was hoping to be home before the rain started, I was unlucky, when I got off the bus, the deluge had already started, so a woman in a hijab took out her umbrella and held it over MY head.
I do not understand this tale that people on the east coast of the United States are rude. Even on our darkest day, September 11, we all did what we could. I went to the local hospital and was one of the first to give a pint of A-positive, after the explosion at the Pentagon rocked the bathroom in which I was brushing my teeth. (Yes, I put food and drink in my car and was fully ready to work in the emergency room in any capacity that I was needed) Yes, it was loud and it shook the floor beneath my feet.
I will renew my question. How were you treated badly in NYC. in Philly, in DC? Please explain how you were mistreated on the east coast.
What a stunning account. I bet you don't even realize it. In fact I know you don't.
You had to point out all the races of these people who helped you as if:
1. You think you are scoring some kind of "identity politics" cred because "minorities" helped you or, WORSE,
2. You think it's really remarkable that black or Muslim people would help you.
I mean why did you even feel the need to point out their race EVERY TIME? Who cares? Here in the conservative Midwest we would be likely to say, "A very nice man helped me shovel out" or "a neighbor shared hints about herbs".
White liberals: the most race-obsessed people anywhere